I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.

I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."